>Count them up and report back the results. Compare the first five years with the last five years....
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Okay, I got some time and threw all the data for FPA into a table. (What else? <g>) Most interesting to me was that even within a small chunk of time, the page count tended to vary--up one month, down the next. Here are the yearly averages:

1993       49.82
1994       56.67
1995       84.00
1996       80.00
1997       78.00
1998       75.33
1999       61.33
2000       52.00
2001       46.00
2002       44.67
2003       44.00

Average page count for the first 5 years (1993-1997): 69.79
Average page count for the last 5 years (1999-2003): 49.69
Largest issue: Oct. '95, 108 pages (includes a conference brochure in that count)

Thought this data would be interesting, too. Here's the number of issues of each size:

# of pages    # of issues
44            36
52            32
60             7
68             8
76            29
84            14
92             2
108            1

So yeah, as well all knew, the magazine is thinner than it once was. However, your premise that it's half the size it was then is something of a stretch.

Tamar